Utilizing Theory of Mind on Human Agent Interaction

The present study examined the effect of artifact´s direction of attention detector (DAD) stimulating actions on the human psychological stance to the artifact. The DAD is a specialized brain function used to determine the attention target by combining information from separate detectors, e.g., direction of eye, head, body and locomotion. We designed sequences of DAD stimulating movement of a chair which can represent its attention to a subject. The chair was controlled by a remote experimenter. The subjects were randomly assigned to one of the two conditions: the DAD stimulating condition and the random action condition (control condition). The result indicated that the DAD stimulating actions changed the subject´s stance and enabled them to discern its intention